Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them

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• agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At the rate of industrial investment into this tech coupled with some places punishing gas cars, a cheap car that spans the gap from now until affoedable and better EVs is the perfect prescription, not to mention we havent stopepd having some form or financial crises since covid.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s debatable. Is it really good if all the energy that went into making the vehicle goes to waste because it only lasts 50k miles? At that point you’re basically building disposable vehicles.

    I think the sweet spot for this period is in hybrids that allow people to run on electricity around town but also have the ICE as a fallback for long/extended trips. The main hesitancy with EVs is range anxiety (ignoring high prices) and hybrids solve that issue while still retaining a lot of the benefits of an EV.

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    • Addv4@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem with that is that phevs are surprising expensive/heavy/complicated. It's why Chevy discontinued the volt over the bolt. And why the chevy had to cut a lot of costs on the volt to get it down to a semi-acceptable price (the volt didn't even have power seats except on the Premier, and only on the drivers side).

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      • Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Honestly, I prefer not to have power seats. It's faster to adjust manual seats in my experience and there's both fewer things to break and less weight.

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    • bluGill@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A large port of cars are recycled, so I'm not sure the energy costs are a big deal.

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      • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A huge amount of the overall CO2 output of EVs is from the manufacturing process though. It doesn’t matter if you can recycle the aluminum bc you still need to heat it to be recast and we’re not exactly using nuclear or solar to power our forges.

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  • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The solid state batteries that seem to be clearly on the verge of mass production within the next few years are going to make everything they’re making now horribly obsolete. I’ve been considering a EV for my next vehicle and will definitely be waiting now.

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    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People have been saying that for years. They could well still be 10 years out since we’ve only recently gotten them working on test benches. I’m not going to keep burning gas in the meantime.

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    • the_third@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been considering a EV for my next vehicle and will definitely be waiting now.

      Looking at how most of the news about that are coming from Toyota at the moment and Toyota happens to have a horrible line up of EVs but a very profitable lineup of ICE cars I’m sceptical. I think they are just trying to get people to buy another round of oil burners.

      I’ve got two compact electric cars since 2020, while everyone’s waiting for the next big thing I’ve already been driving around mainly using electricity from my roof 🤷

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen so much EV vapourware come and go over the years, I’m extremely sceptical about any new technology like this.

      I do sincerely hope it comes through though, range and charging speed are very much the limiting factors for EV tech right now.

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    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While researching Chinese EVs I came across articles about abandoned EVs, the article claimed it was because they were made obsolete (they have roughly 100 mile range or less) so they were abandoned for the newer cheaper models with 3-5x that range, that problem is probably gong to be a bigger one to tackle than Chinese EV longevity, which supposedly aims for roughly 200,000km lifecycle which is 125k miles (average ice car has a lifespan of 130k miles). It also showed me how close to production those batteries you are talking about are, there’s a bold claim that the battery could be good for 2 million kilometers, if it’s even on the same order of magnitude of that, it would make so many EVs ‘obsolete’.

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I was in the market for a new car, I’d strongly consider them because of the cost even knowing the quality may be low. It’s still an EV and would hold its value for now. It’s a good alternative to the slim-pickings we have here in the states

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